It’s been nearly three years since Sheldon Rampton (along with his partner John Stauber) published a scare-campaign manifesto entitled Mad Cow U.S.A.: Could the Nightmare Happen Here? Most thinking people…

Ralph Nader’s “Public Citizen” has teamed up with a whistleblower organization called the Government Accountability Project, and both groups are spreading new fears about mad cow disease. Although there has…

Gro Harlem Brundtland, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), is pushing hard for international control over food safety. The “Codex Alimentarius” Commission, a joint group of WHO and United…

Despite an organized activist campaign saying otherwise, the British Food Standards Agency has declared that there is no massive, hidden epidemic of mad cow disease in Europe. So far this year only 76 cows have tested positive for the disease, out of 1,700,000 head of cattle tested. England's Consumers' Association now advises people to make their own "choices about safety and the relative levels of risk from eating beef that's produced within the UK or elsewhere."